Clerk gropes housewife on Dubai bus

DUBAI: A clerk slipped his hand between a bus’s seat and window to repeatedly touch a housewife in front of him. He has been referred to the Criminal Court.

The Asian defendant, 30, on seeing the Indian housewife, 28, at around 4:30pm waited until she took a seat. He changed his seat and sat on the one behind her. The bus was moving when he started touching.

She shouted at him and he dashed out at the next bus stop. This happened on Sept.26.

Police arrested him later. He told a police lieutenant that he failed to control himself because she was “so beautiful.” On the record, the woman walked out of Union Metro Station and entered a public transport bus. Its first deck was congested. She climbed to the upper deck. There were three women and the defendant.

The defendant kept eyes on her as she walked the aisle towards the back seats. “I did not bother since I supposed he knew me. I was astonished to see him leaving his seat and heading to the rear seats. The bus moved.

I was by the window watching streets when I felt something pressing on my chest from the left. I did not understand what happened. I was sure there was no one on the seat right behind me.

All of a sudden, something squeezed me again on the same place. I bent to see. I was stunned to see a hand near my chest. The hand squeezed me again. I turned and saw it was the defendant behind me.

I jumped out of the seat, shouted and asked what he was doing. He kept mum, with his hand still in the gap between the seat and window. He failed to draw it away as I continued shouting,” she explained.

She threatened to contact the police if he did not go to another the seat. He descended to the lower deck and made his way through wondering commuters. She hurried to stop him from fleeing but he dashed out.

The driver locked the doors and moved the bus before she could step out to pursue him.

The bus stopped at the next stop behind a shopping centre in Nahdah. Police arrived and initiated investigations.

“At around 4:45pm on Oct.30 I was at the metro station waiting for the bus to take me to Nahdah near my Sharjah home when I spotted him. I alerted police,” she said, adding that he confessed upon his arrest.

An Indian commuter said, “I heard her screaming that ‘How dare you touch my chest?’ The defendant looked perplexed and his face reddened. At the next bus stop I saw him hurrying out of the bus.” Case continues.